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  1. L={(G,v)|G is an undirected graph containing at least one circle which itself contains vertex v}

  2. R={(G,v)|G is an undirected graph containing at least one circle which itself contains vertex v, and at least one circle which itself does not contain vertex v}

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What is RL complexity class? – Stefan Geschke Jan 6 2011 at 19:40
RL = Randomized Logarithmic space: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RL_%28complexity%29 . This question is more suited to CS Theory StackExchange, cstheory.stackexchange.com . – Joseph O'Rourke Jan 6 2011 at 23:55

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In fact, since Reingold proved that STCONN is in L these languages are also in L.

The proof for the first is the following. For every u neighbor of v, delete the uv edge and check whether u and v are connected in the resulting graph. If yes, then there is a cycle. If the answer is no for all u, then there is no cycle containing v.

The proof of the second is similar, first check for a cycle containg v, then consider all the edges of v deleted and check whether there is a cycle in the remaining graph, e.g. as before for every pair of vertices.

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